From squat to street ahead of the Olympics

French police evicting migrants from a squat in a disused industrial building not far from the Paris 2024 Olympic Athlete’s Village in Ile-Saint-Denis.

CAMELIA Toldea has packed her family’s suitcases ready for a quick exit from an abandoned building where she and dozens of other Roma live, fearful the squat will be next in a wave of evictions near Paris’ 2024 Olympic Games facilities.

Romanian-born Toldea, her husband and three children are among thousands of migrants, asylum seekers and Roma caught up in evictions in the north Paris suburb of Seine-Saint-Denis that are aggravating the city’s homelessness problem ahead of the games.